Topic: Bitcoin business opportunity - page 2. (Read 6219 times)

*Sigh* Fine. Closed due to lack of interest.   i'm keeping the money already donated, sorry.

I'll see if I can come up with something better tomorrow. Too busy tonight and have to concentrate on cleaning up and preparing for my fancy Italian dinner party this weekend. Not kidding about being able to cook btw. This was last New Years Japanese dinner ( Osechi-ryōri ) where I spent two days preparing 14 different dishes from scratch: http://bit.ly/sBAFkc

I don't drink alcohol, so wouldn't know...

Wine out of a fountain machine is kind of 

It,s a pretty cold area somewhat high in the mountains. Doesn't get too hot out there. As for drinks, maybe a wine fountain machine where you refill your glass like you do with soda?


I think that makes my idea for the location even better, because our seniors are already quite used to a lack of human interaction. Japanese are even building robots to replace elderly care nurses!

They're slow, they make a mess and truthfully someone took the concept of "no human interaction" too far. As in these things are never cleaned and you can see as well as taste that there is something in the pipes/nozzle that doesn't belong there.

Truthfully I've only seen videos -- first hand experience obviously outweighs that.

Ever seen them in action? I did. Never went there again.

I know people have built bartending robots...

Rassah, this isn't a *terrible* idea, but I agree with taking it down a couple notches to a vending machine, or even food-truck. With sous-vede cooking you could like even do meat to order through the vending machine, and would sure beat the ones with crappy sandwiches.

I shall take that as show of interest, and will be contacting you directly. Expect me at your front door by 7pm this evening. Thank you!

all crazy ideas that will never work should end exactly like this!

Do you know how much energy fridges and coolers pull? It's one of the most price intensive posts in any restaurants list of costs.

While we're on the topic: How are you going to serve drinks? Especially things like wine or anything carbonated?

I don't know and won't know until after the robots are designed. Probably not much more than about $1,500 a month for gas and electric, which is less than one employee would cost.

I meant to be more specific about it, but flubbed up when asking: what do you estimate would be the operational costs of water, gas and electric come the end of the month and the bills arrive? Seems like completely automated cooking and delivery would bring in a hefty electric bill for the robots alone.

Good point. Maybe just deliver the table top with the food already on it.

I know I like my upscale restaurants to *splork* my food right on the table. 

That's a coincidence. This restaurants current outstanding loan balance is actually about $185k, but due to foreclosure issues I think I can get it for less.


Electricity costs $0.13/kWh there and gas and water are pretty cheap too. Cumberland is near a fresh water canal, so water is abundant, and it's a coal town, so plenty of cheap power and gas. Overhead would have to include maintenance and repair of the robots, but I can talk to some local mechanics to get details on that. There are a lot of people who work on cars and trains in that area. I would have to accept credit cards too, obviously. Food prices for raw ingredients are probably comparable to those of the rest of the east coast.There are a few other up scale restaurants right in that same area (a NY style, an Italian, and a bit further a French one that costs a fortune).


I may have one person there at the entrance welcoming and seating people, and monitoring the systems on a screen to let mechanics know if something breaks, or place orders if some ingredients are running low. I would need a separate accounting and purchasing department to deal with suppliers, establish prices, and track costs and revenues. Probably three people on ful time staff at most, with maintenance only called when needed. If the kitchen is mostly stainless steel and plastic with many floor drains, it can be set up with soap and water sprinklers, and the entire system can be washed nightly automatically like a giant dishwasher. Customer table tops can be solid stainless steel round disks with four plate-shaped depressions. Instead of food being delivered on plates, it can be delivered on small trays and scooped right onto the table into those plate-shaped depressions. After customers are done eating, the entire table top can be removed and automatically moved to the kitchen, where it gets washed with the rest of the equipment.



If it fails, it fails. Everything will be sold off and money redistributed to investors evenly. Like all businesses, this is risky, and you shouldn't invest unless you are ready to lose your money.

Maybe the customers are robots too? 

I was thinking the same thing. This resteraunt costs $175,000, which is the same amount logan's movie theater is priced at.

Rassah, could you give more information, such as estimated overhead; cost of the robots/kitchen equipment, how other restaurants in the area fair; will it also accept cash/credit or be bitcoin only; what food, water, gas and electricity would cost.

Is there going to be any staff to speak of working at it? The kitchen is going to have to be inspected and cleaned for the sake of health inspections and you can't really rely on customers to fully clean up after themselves and others. So the eating area would need someone to keep it clean throughout the day.

Also any exit plan if it doesn't work out a couple of months after opening?

Thanks. Every time I get discouraged, you say something that gives me back confidence. I've had two more people give me support with this today btw.

When you can stay in character for years as a naked cat-man waving his erect penis about, anything is possible.